Back-to-back Definition

băktə-băk
adjective
Consecutive; successive.
Back-to-back performances; back-to-back home runs.
American Heritage
One right after another; consecutive.
Webster's New World
Facing in opposite directions, with the backs touching.
Webster's New World

(idiomatic) Sequential or consecutive.

Ruth and Gehrig hit back-to-back home runs.
They sat through two back-to-back movies.
Wiktionary

With one's back facing that of somebody else.

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adverb

With one's back facing that of somebody else.

Stand back-to-back so that we can see which of you is taller.
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Back-to-back Sentence Examples

  • If two cones are placed back to back the belt tends to rise to the ridge and stay there.

  • She ran hard, spotting Yully and Charles fighting back-to-back at the base of the obelisk.

  • The engines were mounted back-to-back in pairs, with the forward unit driving a tractor airscrew and the aft facing unit a pusher propeller.

  • I use two rake heads welded together back-to-back with thirty meters of polypropylene rope attached.

  • It is virtually back-to-back hotels with a narrow line of shingle to serve as a beach.

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